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After booking a 3-2 run in the Spokane/Coeur d’ Alene Wooden Bat tourney over the weekend, the Pullman Patriots dropped two games to the Spokane Blue Devils in a makeup round Tuesday at Pullman. The two defeats left the Patriots 6-10 in the Spokane Legion League with a trip to the four-day Walla Walla tournament this weekend. Tuesday at Pullman, the Blue Devil posted a 6-2 win in the first game and a 16-1 blast in the second game. The Pats had trouble getting the bats in gear with just four hits in the first game. The Devils led 4-0 until t...
Pomeroy started the novice swim season where it left off last year with a win at Colfax in the opening meet. The Pirate strokers booked a close road win with 171 points, an 11 point margin over St. John/Endicott which has added LaCrosse swimmers back into the competition this year. Host Colfax booked 156 points in the opener with Oakesdale, which has added Rosalia swimmers this year, finishing with 44 points. FREESTYLE 100 Boys 12 & under: 1.Nolan Monahan-P 1:16.5, 2.Benjamin Ross-C 1:23.11, 3.Trenton Gregory-O 1:30.58, 4. Spencer Craigie-P...
Ace of Aces ends Twilight Craig Gronning and Randy Black were named Ace of Aces in the last-man-standing finale of the Twilight golf season last Thursday at the Colfax Golf and Country Club. Gronning topped the field to claim the gross title, with Chris Hille runner-up. Black bested the expanded net field, which includes a golfer's handicap, followed by Galen Carothers. Almota Elevator's team of Joe Fox, Rob Whitmore, Bill Pennick and Chris Hille took the championship in the June 23 Twilight team finale. Youth duck hunt called at Turnbull The...
THURSDAY A federal judge blocked a new South Dakota abortion law requiring the longest waiting period in the nation at 72-hours and a meeting at an anti-abortion counseling center before a woman can have the procedure. Flights at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport were delayed when about 150 diamondback terrapins crossed a runway. Just days before cycling’s elite gather to race in the grueling Tour de France, pigeon fanciers began a 13-stage bird race around the country, reaching speeds as high as 100 mph with favorable wind gus... Full story
Forty-two members of the Colfax Church of the Nazarene returned last week from an 11-day mission trip to Hawaii. Youth Pastor Marc Gudmunson said they were asked by Tim Cruz, the pastor of Kahului Nazarene Church on Maui, to come assist his congregation. Gudmunson said the Kahului church serves a very poor neighborhood, and thus receives little financial support from the locals. The church is also limited in the support it receives from the national Nazarene church. Gudmunson said the impoverished surroundings of the small church’s n...
The funds have been raised for at least eight solar panels in memory of Palouse’s Mike Carlton. The solar panels will be on the roof of the soon-to-be-built Palouse Community Center and will partially provide the electrical needs of the building. In tandem with the solar panel project, the center in mid-June learned it was awarded a $20,000 grant from the Inland Northwest Community Foundation. The grant will pay for a special heating and cooling system for the building that conserves energy at a much higher rate than most other systems. C... Full story
Whitman County commissioners Tuesday discussed a possible dissolution of the Southeast Washington Economic Development Association, or SEWEDA. SEWEDA is the economic recruiting agency set up to serve Whitman, Asotin, Columbia and Garfield counties. Commissioner Pat O’Neill, who serves on SEWEDA’s board of directors, said Columbia County is planning to leave the organization to join its economic development efforts with groups in Walla Walla or northeast Oregon. “That makes sense for them,” said Commissioner Michael Largent. Members of the SEW...
Washington State Parks and Recreation was recently awarded a grant for $96,000 to prepare a plan for repairs and upgrades to the John Wayne Pioneer Trail. The grant will develop a site plan and secure local permits for the development of trailheads along the trail at Malden, Rosalia and Tekoa. The site plan, to be designed over two years, will lay out the details of each traihead, such as parking spaces, restrooms and picnic tables, according to Bill Fraser, regional planner for the Eastern Regional Office for Washington State Parks and...
Inappropriate materials thrown into the Palouse compost pile are back-logging the city’s time using the chipper to process the materials. City staff has found big logs, bottles and root balls in the compost pile, matter which cannot be chewed up by the public chipper and which must be removed by hand. The town council has heard details on the junk problem at several council meetings in the past few months from city Public Works Director Duane Griffin. County Recycling and Waste Reduction Coordinator Judi Dunn-Grey spoke at the last council meet... Full story
Community Action Center is constructing four houses for low-income families along Palouse Cove Road outside of Palouse. Foundations and frames of the stick-built homes are partially completed. “It allows a moderately paid person to get into home-ownership,” said Dale Miller, housing program manager for the Community Action Center. Funding for CAC’s Self-Help Housing Project comes from the federal government’s Housing and Urban Development fund, Community Frameworks, a non-profit in the Pacific Northwest. Also the payments on other houses which...
Despite Commissioner Pat O’Neill’s calls to tear down the “money drain,” Whitman County commissioners Tuesday decided to let the CETC building in Colfax stand for another year. O’Neill said the county is losing $5,000 a year in bills for electricity, heat and water to the building. “To spend $5,000 a year on something we’re not getting any return on doesn’t make a lot of sense for me,” said O’Neill. “It is a money drain.” He suggested tearing the building down now. Commissioner Greg Partch, though, thought the building is a “benefit not only...
Another pre-trial round of the Kentucky Bluegrass Seed suit, a motion by Scotts Co. to eliminate claims for consequential damages, was argued Friday afternoon in Whitman County Superior Court. Attorneys for Scotts, Seeds Inc. of Tekoa and Dye Seed Co. Pomeroy presented their arguments before Judge David Frazier. At the end of the session, the judge said he would need time to study their arguments before announcing a decision. Friday’s argument related a partial motion for summary judgment by Scotts to dismiss claims for consequential damages a...
The fourth annual Floriade show, “Art in Bloom”, at Palouse’s Bank Left Gallery will open July 9. A reception for the artists will be July 9 from 1 to 5 p.m. with live music throughout the reception. The Bank Left Bistro will prepare a dinner with edible flowers that evening and serve it from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Delicacies like baked salmon with nasturtium butter cream sauce and a pansy-mint, basil salad with a honeysuckle vinaigrette will be available. Dinner is $25 per person. Floriade is art made with living flowers. This year’s Floriade show in...
Spokane County’s WSU Extension office has planned a day-long tour of cover crop fields next Monday, July 11. The tour will spotlight use of oats, peas, vetch, clover, mustard and other crops as cover for spring grains. The tour begins at 8 a.m. on Wood Road near Deep Creek off Highway 2. It then proceeds to Sprague and Cheney, wrapping up at the Belsby farm on Belsby Road north of Pine City. The tour is free and open to anyone interested, but a catered lunch will cost attendees $8. For further information, contact Diana Roberts, WSU e...
With the cocky swagger and iron handcuffs of Old West marshals, though donnning umbrella hats, the sisters Druffel strode the streets of Johnson Monday to ensure their creation - the town’s Fourth of July parade - stayed dry. After 44 years of unbridled growth, the Druffel gals - originators of the parade - decided it had gotten a bit out of control. Led by a number of water-loving entrants, portions of the parade had turned into an aquatic battle zone. The Druffel sisters asked attendees this year to leave their water cannons, squirt guns and... Full story
The 2011 Whitman County Relay for Life kicks off tomorrow, July 8, at the Colfax High School track. Eighteen teams will participate in the all-night event. Many team members hail from other small Whitman County towns, including a team from St. John/ Endicott. “It’s a good night to remember people that have lost their lives to cancer and those that have survived this terrible disease,” said Deanna Leinweber, committee member for the Relay for Life. As team members take turns at walking the track throughout the night, many other Relay for Life ev...
A Prosser man sustained life threatening injuries in a three-car collision south of Colfax Tuesday morning. Christopher Beaver, 29, Prosser, was flown by Life Flight helicopter to St. Joseph Medical Center in Lewiston and then flown to Harbor View Medical Center in Seattle Tuesday night. Beaver, who sustained head injuries, had to be extricated from his Saturn. The mid-morning accident backed up SR 195 traffic for miles in either direction. Drivers of two other cars left the scene with minor injuries. “It was a very serious collision,” sai...
Gazette Reporter Spokane-based utility company Avista announced last Thursday, June 30, it will purchase power from the proposed Palouse Wind project. The wind farm, being developed by Boston-based First Wind, will provide Avista an average of 40 megawatts of renewable energy, and as much as 100 megawatts. The agreement is set to last for 30 years, beginning next year. First Wind, under the Palouse Wind moniker, is planning to build a 65-turbine wind farm on Naff Ridge, Granite Butte and Steam Shovel Hill between Oakesdale and Highway 195. The...
